Everyone wants their favorite athletes on Twitter. Social media gives the average fan a level of access to famous people that they didn't have even five years ago. Using it to your advantage can create a following powerful enough to change the trajectory of your career. Using it poorly? Makes you a punch line.

The list of examples of times this relationship has gone horribly wrong continues to grow. Dan Ellis learned his lesson and dropped social media altogether. Paul Bissonette left Twitter, then came back. The examples in other sports is even longer than with hockey players. Things said in the privacy of their home now are digested publicly. The private self and the online self are no longer separate entities.


http://www.hockeywilderness.com/2012...ect-on-twitter